chapter 1 Communication Standards: Go¨tterda¨mmerung? -- chapter 2 ITU-T H.323 and H.324 Standards / chapter 3 H.263 (Including H.263) and Other ITU-T Video Coding Standards -- chapter 4 Overview of the MPEG Standards / chapter 5 Review of MPEG–4 General Audio Coding -- chapter 6 Synthetic Audio and SNHC Audio in MPEG–4 -- chapter 7 MPEG–4 Visual Standard Overview -- chapter 8 MPEG-4 Natural Video Coding—Part I -- chapter 9 MPEG-4 Natural Video Coding—Part II -- chapter 10 MPEG–4 Texture Coding -- chapter 11 MPEG-4 Synthetic Video / chapter 12 MPEG-4 Systems: Overview / chapter 13 MPEG-4 Systems: Elementary Stream Management and Delivery / chapter 14 MPEG-4: Scene Representation and Interactivity / chapter 15 Java in MPEG-4 (MPEG-J) / chapter 16 MPEG-4 Players Implementation / chapter 17 Multimedia Transport in ATM Networks / chapter 18 Delivery and Control of MPEG-4 Content Over IP Networks / chapter 19 Multimedia Over Wireless / chapter 20 Multimedia Search and Retrieval / chapter 21 Image Retrieval in Digital Libraries / chapter 22 MPEG-7: Status and Directions